ZBC listeners' licence fees up

By Staff reporter | 11 Mar 2020 at 19:06hrs
ZBC
THE government yesterday hiked ZBC listeners' licence fees for a car radio to $600 a quarter and also legalised the payment of the fees in foreign currency.

This was contained in Statutory Instrument 63 of 2020 gazetted yesterday.

"A listener may pay any fee referred to in Subsection (1) in euros, British pounds, South African rand or Botswana pula at the international cross rate of exchange of the currency in question for the ZWL dollar, rounded downwards or upwards to the nearest multiple of ten.

"The Broadcasting (Listeners' Licences) (Fees) Notice, 2009, published in Statutory Instrument 19 of 2009, is repealed."

The SI 63 of 2020 also increased the licence fees.

"The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, with the approval of the minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, hereby makes the following notice, in terms of section 38B(2) of the Broadcasting Services Act [Chapter 12:06]:

"The fee payable for a licence issued to a listener for a receiver in terms of the licences regulations, or for the renewal of such a licence, shall be — in the case of a listener's licence (sound-rural), 25 ZWL dollars per quarter or part.

"In the case of a listener's licence (sound-urban), 50 ZWL dollars per quarter or part thereof; in the case of a listener's licence (sound and television), 100 ZWL dollars per quarter or part.

Those who want listener's licences for business premises will fork out $450 per quarter or part.

"In the case of a listener's licence (television-business premises), 1 000 ZWL dollars per quarter or part thereof; in the case of a listener's licence (sound-private vehicle), 300 ZWL dollars per quarter or part thereof; Broadcasting (Listeners' Licences) (Fees) Notice, 2020

"In the case of a listener's licence (sound-employer-owned vehicle), 600 ZWL dollars per quarter or part thereof; in the case of a listener's licence (sound and television vehicle), 1 000 ZWL dollars per quarter or part," the gazette reads.

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